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Jimmy Rowser
James Edward Rowser (April 18, 1926 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; - June 24, 2004 in Teaneck, New Jersey)Cite Web : https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/northjersey/obituary.aspx?n=james-e-rowser&pid=2368134 was an American jazz double-bassist. Rowser learned to play piano and bass as a youth. He played with the house band at Philadelphia's Blue Note club, accompanying touring musicians such as Cannonball Adderley, Miles Davis, Billie Holiday, J.J. Johnson, Anita O'Day, Charlie Parker, and Kai Winding. In the late 1950s he played with Dinah Washington, Maynard Ferguson, Lee Morgan, and Red Garland. He was active in New York in the early 1960s with Junior Mance, Ray Bryant, Herb Ellis, and Illinois Jacquet, and toured internationally with Benny Goodman and Friedrich Gulda in 1963-1964. Later in the 1960s he worked with Al Cohn and Zoot Sims and then with Les McCann; he remained with McCann well into the 1970s. In the 1980s he played with Bryant once more and also with Hilton Ruiz. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression in traditional and popular music. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, complex chords, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. Jazz has roots in European harmony and African rhythmic rituals. As jazz spread around the world, it drew on national, regional, and local musical cultures, which gave rise to different styles. New Orleans jazz began in the early 1910s, combining earlier brass band marches, French quadrilles, biguine, ragtime and blues with collective polyphonic improvisation. But jazz did not begin as a single musical tradition in New Orleans or elsewhere. In the 1930s, arranged dance-oriented swing big bands, Kansas City jazz (a hard-swinging, bluesy, improvisationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich Gulda
Friedrich Gulda (16 May 1930 – 27 January 2000) was an Austrian pianist and composer who worked in both the classical and jazz fields. Biography Early life and career Born in Vienna the son of a teacher, Gulda began learning to play the piano from Felix Pazofsky at the Wiener Volkskonservatorium, aged 7. In 1942, he entered the Vienna Music Academy, where he studied piano and musical theory under Bruno Seidlhofer and Joseph Marx. During World War II as teenagers, Gulda and his friend Joe Zawinul would perform forbidden music including jazz, in violation of the government's prohibition on the playing of such music."Friedrich Gulda: So What – A Portrait" Gulda won first prize at the Geneva International Music Competition in 1946. Initially, the jury preferred the Belgian pianist Lode Backx, but when the final vote was taken, Gulda was the winner. One of the jurors, Eileen Joyce, who favoured Backx, stormed out and claimed the other jurors were unfairly influenced by Gulda's su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swingin' My Way Through College
''Swingin' My Way Through College'' (subtitled ''Maynard Ferguson and His Orchestra Play for Dancing'') is an album released by Canadian jazz trumpeter Maynard Ferguson featuring tracks recorded in late 1958 and originally released on the Roulette label.Minn, MMaynard Ferguson discography accessed October 30, 2015 Reception Allmusic awarded the album 2 stars.Allmusic listing accessed October 30, 2015 Track listing # "" (, |
Maynard Ferguson Plays Jazz For Dancing
''Maynard Ferguson Plays Jazz for Dancing'' is an album released by Canadian jazz trumpeter Maynard Ferguson featuring tracks recorded in early 1959 and originally released on the Roulette label.Minn, MMaynard Ferguson discography accessed October 30, 2015 Reception Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars and states "Ferguson and his excellent orchestra purposely play it safe, performing pleasing but unadventurous music that is not as exciting as their more jazz-oriented sessions of the era". Track listing # "Hey There" ( Jerry Ross, Richard Adler) – 2:58 # "Where's Teddy" (Maynard Ferguson, Willie Maiden) – 2:37 # " If I Should Lose You" (Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin) – 3:35 # " I'll Be Seeing You" ( Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal) – 2:25 # " 'Tis Autumn" (Henry Nemo) – 3:07 # " Secret Love" (Fain, Paul Francis Webster) – 2:22 # "I'm Beginning to See the Light" ( Duke Ellington, Don George, Harry James, Johnny Hodges) – 2:38 # "It Might as Well Be Spring" ( Richard Rodgers, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sound Ray
''Sound Ray'' is an album by pianist Ray Bryant recorded and released by Cadet Records in 1969. accessed August 6, 2019 Track listing All compositions by Ray Bryant except where noted # " A Song for My Father" () – 5:23 # "" ( Dizzy Gillespie) – 4:14 # "[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ray Bryant Touch
''The Ray Bryant Touch'' is a live album by pianist Ray Bryant recorded in Los Angeles and released by Sue Records in 1967. accessed August 6, 2019 Track listing All compositions by Ray Bryant except where noted # "Little Susie" – 5:00 # "" () – 5:38 # "City Tribal Dance" – 2:27 # "Prayer Song" – 4:02 # " |
Lonesome Traveler (album)
''Lonesome Traveler'' is an album by pianist Ray Bryant recorded and released by Cadet Records in 1966. Reception ''Flophouse'' magazine stated: "''Lonesome Traveler'' is one of pianist Ray Bryant’s grittiest recordings and his second album on Cadet – the subsidiary of Chicago blues and r&b label Chess. ...By 1966, Bryant, a pianist with a lot of gospel and blues feeling and an uncommonly firm, propulsive left hand had a satisfactory decade to look back upon". accessed August 5, 2019 Track listing ''All compositions by Ray Bryant, except where indicated.'' # "Lonesome Traveler" ( Lee Hays) – 3:14 # "[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cold Turkey (album)
''Cold Turkey'' is a live album by pianist Ray Bryant recorded at Basin Street East and released by Sue Records in 1964. Retrieved August 5, 2019. Reception The review stated: "This 1964 release finds versatile pianist Ray Bryant in a crowd-pleasing frame of mind. The 12 tracks provide solid grooves, lyrical ballads, blues, calypso, a bit of boogie-woogie, and more. Supported by a lively, yet unremarkable, rhythm section, the accessible melodies, riffs, and rhythms stream effortlessly from Bryant's fingers. Though he works well within the structure of each piece, the pianist's impressive technique, faci ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Live At Basin Street East
''Live at Basin Street East'' is a live album by pianist Ray Bryant recorded at Basin Street East and released on Sue Records in 1964. accessed April 26, 2017 Reception The review stated "This LP concentrates primarily on standards, although one pop song of the period (Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind") is thrown in, along with a pair of Bryant's originals. The piano is in decent shape, though Bryant is fairly conservative in his approach to most of the tunes, resulting in a somewhat uninspired treatment of "C Jam Blues" and a funky but lackluster "Love for Sale." ... The audience, for the most part, see ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dancing The Big Twist
''Dancing the Big Twist'' is an album by pianist Ray Bryant released on Columbia Records in 1961 to capitalise on the Twist dance craze. accessed April 26, 2017 Reception The review stated "This session will appeal to those who favor Bryant's dance hit of the era, 'Madison Time'".Track listing # "Twist City" (Matthew Gee) – 5:45 # "Just a Little Bit of Twist" (Don Covay) – 2:46 # "Big Susie" (Ray Bryant) – 5:22 # "Twist On" (Bryant) – 4:46 # "Twistin' an a Cat's Paw" (BuddyTate) – 5:00 # "Mo-Lasses" (Joe Newman) – 5:15 ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lehman College
Lehman College is a public college in the Bronx borough of New York City. Founded in 1931 as the Bronx campus of Hunter College, the school became an independent college within CUNY in September 1967. The college is named after Herbert H. Lehman, a former New York governor, United States senator, philanthropist, and the son of Lehman Brothers co-founder Mayer Lehman. It is a senior college of the City University of New York (CUNY) with more than 90 undergraduate and graduate degree programs and specializations. History Hunter College in the Bronx was built during the 1930s. The campus was the main national training ground for women in the military during World War II. For a decade before the entry of the United States in World War II, only women students attended, taking their first two years of study at the Bronx campus and then transferring to Hunter’s Manhattan campus to complete their undergraduate work. During the war, Hunter leased the Bronx Campus buildings to the Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hilton Ruiz
Hilton Ruiz (May 29, 1952 – June 6, 2006) was an American jazz pianist in the Afro-Cuban jazz mold, but was also a talented bebop player. He was of Puerto Rican descent. Biography Born in New York City, Ruiz began playing piano at the age of five after being inspired by Duke Ellington. At the age of eight he performed Mozart at Carnegie Hall. In high school Ruiz studied jazz piano with Mary Lou Williams. In 1973 he was a sideman for Roland Kirk, then later for Clark Terry. He also worked with Betty Carter, Tito Puente, and Mongo Santamaría. He co-wrote a music instruction book, ''Jazz and How to Play It''. He appeared on the soundtrack to Woody Allen's ''Crimes and Misdemeanors''. On May 19, 2006, Ruiz was found unconscious on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, where he had gone to shoot a video to promote a recently recorded project with M27 Records benefiting the victims of Hurricane Katrina entitled "Goin' Back to New Orleans". The police filed a report that he had injured hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
